Anchor.



No. 685,047. Paten ted Oct. 22, 190i.

, F. JDYNER.

ANCHOR.

(Application filed Feb. 1, 1899.)

(No Model.)

NrrE TATES PATENT Erica.

FLETCHER JOYNER, or scHENEoTAnY, NEW YORK.

ANCHOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 685,047, dated October 22, 1901.

Application filed February 1, 1899. Serial No. 704,098. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FLETCHER JOYNEE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city and county of Schenectady, in the State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Anchors, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to produce a cheap and effective folding boat-anchor.

The invention consists in forming recesses in an anchor-shaft and providing the said recess with compound shoulders and forming flukes with shoulders to engage the said shaft-shoulders and means to lock said flukes in an open or closed position.

Figure 1 represents the anchor, having its flukes opened. Fig. 2 represents the anchor closed. Fig. 3 shows the side inner view of a fluke. Fig. 4 represents the lower end of the shaft broken away to show the fluke-recess and the shoulders, and Fig. 5 is a crosssectional view of Fig. 1 on line X X.

A in the several figures is an anchor having pivoted flukes B and head A The shaft A of the anchor is provided with a base or enlarged part A at its lower end.

A in Figs. 4. and 5 represents fluke=recesses and are located at three equally divided points of the base, as shown in the cross-sectional view, Fig. 5. These recesses are formed by side walls A and periphery-walls A The side walls A are provided with journal-holes A and keyholes A, Fig. 4.. The journalholes support the journal A onwhich the flukes B swing, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 5, and hole A holds a key to lock the flukes in an open or closed position. The peripherywalls A are provided with seats or shoulders A and A Fig. 4, which, with the journal A and keys A, form four bearings for the flukes A Fig. 5 shows the metal of the base cutaway, forming sinks. By this planthe fluke and is provided with seats 13 and B keyholes B and B and journal -hole 13. The seat 13, when the fluke is opened, comes in contact with the shoulder A of the shaft and at the same time the seat B rests against the shoulder A forming a compound rest. That the shoulder B may not come in contact with the shoulder A it is formed be low the base-line of the shoulder B The hole B is located in the tenon B in a position to be opposite the hole A when the flukes are in a closed position, as shown in Fig. 2, while the hole B is located to the opposite hole A when the flukes are opened, as in Fig. 1. By this plan it is readily seen that the hole A in the base answers for locking the flukes in an opened or closed position. The shoulder 13 ofthe fluke is to close the space between the fluke and wall A at A", Fig. 4, which prevents dirt gathering in the recess While the anchor is in use.

It will be readily seen that all the parts of my anchor can be cast from metal and assembled without extra machine-work,all parts being interchangeable.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is--= 1. The shaft A having recess A to receive the fluke-tenon B and the shoulder A in combination with the pivoted fluke B having shoulder B journal-hole B and keyholes l3 and B as and for the purpose described.

2. The shaft A having recesses A to receive the fluke-tenon B, the shoulders A and A, the journal-hole A and keyhole A in combination with the fluke B having shoulders B and B journal -hole l3 and keyholes 'B and B as and for the purpose described. 

